Publication in BibTeX Format

@TECHREPORT{AICPub603:1985,
AUTHOR={Shieber, Stuart},
TITLE={Criteria For Designing Computer Facilities For Linguistic Analysis},
ADDRESS={333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025},
INSTITUTION={AI Center, SRI International},
MONTH={Apr},
NUMBER={354},
YEAR={1985},
KEYWORDS={Natural Language!Tools, PATR},
ABSTRACT={In the natural-language-processing research community, the usefulness
of computer tools for testing linquistic analyses is often taken for granted.
Linguists, on the other hand, have generally been unaware of or ambivalent
about such devices. We discuss several aspects of computer use that are preeminent
in establishing the utility for linguistic research of computer tools and describe
several factors that must be considered in designing such computer tools to
aid in testing linguistic analyses of grammatical phenomena. A series of design
alternatives, some theoretically and some practically motivated, is then based
on the resultant criteria. We present one way of pinning down these choices
which culminates in a description of a particular grammar formalism for use
in computer linguistic tools. The PATR-II formalism thus serves to exemplify
our general perspective.}
}